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Bring the Grizzlies back to Vancouver (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by AllOutRaptors@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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The Memphis Grizzlies are currently selling tickets for as low as $2 per seat. They are averaging the 5th worst attendance in the league at 16, 833 which is worse than half of the Vancouver Grizzlies seasons almost 30 years ago when average attendance league wide was much lower than now.

Am I still petty that Memphis took our team? Absolutely.

But I can also guarantee you'd be hard pressed to find tickets to a Vancouver NBA game for the price of a quarter of a water at Rogers Arena. Not to mention I'm positive that Vancouver could do better than the 5th worst attendance in the league.

I look forward to seeing salty Memphis fans in my DMs, but just remember you would be frustrated too if a worse market stole you're NBA team, and then showed poor support to an actually talented team.

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[–] bobittoknorr@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Everyone in this thread needs to watch the documentary called “the grizzly truth” about how and why we lost the team. It’s well done and a fun piece of basketball nostalgia from that era. I promise I’m not just saying it because I am one of the super fans that is in it. We lost the team because we had individual businesses owners and the Canadian dollar took a nose dive during the formative years which made it really hard financially on the owners. Also we got fucked out of having a top 5 pick for several years and our management blew it by drafting a guy who clearly didn’t want to be here. Yeah Francis should have been an adult about it and gave the city a chance but still, why did we draft him? Fan attendance was never the main issue at all. We showed up pretty fucking well to support a losing product right up until the lockout anyways. That was when overall sentiment towards the league took a nose dive everywhere and the league lost its main box office draw (that would be MJ for the young ones).

[–] Art__Vandellay@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Fan attendance was never the main issue at all. We showed up pretty fucking well to support a losing product right up until the lockout anyways

It's irritating how so many people think that nobody showed up to the games and we deserved to lose the team. It was a complete fabrication by Michael Heisley after he blatantly lied about his intentions when buying the team

In hindsight it was objectively a terrible business decision as Vancouver would go on to become one of the wealthiest cities in all of North America. Not only that but basketball is and has been wildly popular here for a decade plus

Everything about that relocation was just so, so slimy. Stu Jackson and Michael Heisley are 2 of my least favorite people of all time. Making poor draft choices and not having a great team for 6 years is not enough to warrant relocating the franchise, and I think any sane fan would agree.

I was a very sad 11 year old when they left

[–] IMissReggieEvans@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In the last season in Vancouver, the Grizzlies were the 27th best team in record and were 28th in attendance. I’m not gonna blame fans for not wanting to see a bad team, and I don’t want anyone to lose their team (esp. as a Kings fan!), but that doesn’t paint the fanbase as anything special.

[–] Art__Vandellay@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Are you talking about the season where it was announced that they were leaving before the season opener?

So the fans should flock to the arena and give Michael Heisley their money after he blatantly lied to their faces when he said he wasnt going to move the team?

Lol, ok buddy

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